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Hello my name is Melissa Overmann and I am a student at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. Today is November 14, 2011 and we are at the Walsh University. I am interviewing Ms. Karen Covington. Can you state your rank and branch of service?
Karen: Technical Sergeant, United States Air Force.
Me: Okay, may I ask your date of birth?
Karen: March 15, 1975
Me: Okay, so can you tell me about your experiences during your time in the air force?
Karen: Yes, um. My job title or my…everyone in the military has like a…ummm, career filled designation. And mine was titled information manager. And that was primarily a office job, where we could do anything from human resources type stuff to computer administration and repair. Ummm….and that’s pretty much what I did the whole time I was in the military for 13 years. I…when I was in Iraq I did a…I worked as a protocol officer which is very different than what I’ve done before. Umm..pretty much what we did was anytime a distinguished visitor would come into our base or into…well I was at the bio..it was called BIOP it’s Baghdad International Airport. So pretty much everyone that flew into the immediate area of Baghdad came into our airport. So any of the distinguished visitors like ambassadors or senators or you know anyone that was considered important I guess it would come through my office and we would basically just keep track of when people were coming in and make sure that they had security detail assigned to them and we had kind of a lounge where people would come in and we’d give them coffee and whatnot. And we had a fancy tent designated for anyone that needed to stay the night or whatnot. And that’s in a nutshell pretty much what we did every day.
Umm…I think the most the most famous person that I met there was Colin Powell came in when I was there. And then like I said a bunch of ambassadors and senators and people from other countries that wasn’t just American distinguished visitors. So umm…there was countries I hadn’t even really ever heard of that I was learning about, we were looking up on the map. So I was there for about 3 months and lived in a tent which was interesting, wasn’t very fun but we each had a little area sectioned off in our tent that was like our personal area. So I had a bed and a...I guess a book shelf to keep my stuff in and we pretty much worked probably 12 hour days or more and didn’t have much time for other stuff. We would..there was a tent with a gym in it and we would go work out there and there was a recreation tent where they had board games and TVs or whatnot. And in my tent I had a little portable DVD player and books that I read at night.
Me: Did you live with the other women in the tent? Was it just all women in your tent?

Hello my name is Melissa Overmann and I am a student at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. Today is November 14, 2011 and we are at the Walsh University. I am interviewing Ms. Karen Covington. Can you state your rank and branch of service?
Karen: Technical Sergeant, United States Air Force.
Me: Okay, may I ask your date of birth?
Karen: March 15, 1975
Me: Okay, so can you tell me about your experiences during your time in the air force?
Karen: Yes, um. My job title or my…everyone in the military has like a…ummm, career filled designation. And mine was titled information manager. And that was primarily a office job, where we could do anything from human resources type stuff to computer administration and repair. Ummm….and that’s pretty much what I did the whole time I was in the military for 13 years. I…when I was in Iraq I did a…I worked as a protocol officer which is very different than what I’ve done before. Umm..pretty much what we did was anytime a distinguished visitor would come into our base or into…well I was at the bio..it was called BIOP it’s Baghdad International Airport. So pretty much everyone that flew into the immediate area of Baghdad came into our airport. So any of the distinguished visitors like ambassadors or senators or you know anyone that was considered important I guess it would come through my office and we would basically just keep track of when people were coming in and make sure that they had security detail assigned to them and we had kind of a lounge where people would come in and we’d give them coffee and whatnot. And we had a fancy tent designated for anyone that needed to stay the night or whatnot. And that’s in a nutshell pretty much what we did every day.
Umm…I think the most the most famous person that I met there was Colin Powell came in when I was there. And then like I said a bunch of ambassadors and senators and people from other countries that wasn’t just American distinguished visitors. So umm…there was countries I hadn’t even really ever heard of that I was learning about, we were looking up on the map. So I was there for about 3 months and lived in a tent which was interesting, wasn’t very fun but we each had a little area sectioned off in our tent that was like our personal area. So I had a bed and a...I guess a book shelf to keep my stuff in and we pretty much worked probably 12 hour days or more and didn’t have much time for other stuff. We would..there was a tent with a gym in it and we would go work out there and there was a recreation tent where they had board games and TVs or whatnot. And in my tent I had a little portable DVD player and books that I read at night.
Me: Did you live with the other women in the tent? Was it just all women in your tent?